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CVE-1999-1214

LOW · CVSS 2.1 EPSS 0.30%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 1997-09-15 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a low severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 2.1. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.

CVE
CVE-1999-1214
Severity
LOW
CVSS
2.1
EPSS
0.30%

Original NVD Description

The asynchronous I/O facility in 4.4 BSD kernel does not check user credentials when setting the recipient of I/O notification, which allows local users to cause a denial of service by using certain ioctl and fcntl calls to cause the signal to be sent to an arbitrary process ID.